School Leavers not good enough for stacking shelves says head of Tesco

[centurian]

I did the first year of GCSEs; the exam questions were mostly recycled O level questions so the standards didn't fall immediately, but seem to have gone downhill since.

I'm pi55ed off at having what is viewed as a 2nd rate qualificiation to O-levels despite it being just as hard at the time.


Same here...

[darmstadt]

I'm pi55ed off at having what is viewed as a 2nd rate qualificiation to O-levels despite it being just as hard at the time.


Same here...

Personally I wouldn't worry about it. I've never been asked for my qualifications, apart from my first job when I was a YOP and they kept me on afterwards, and it would be embarrasing anyway as I only have 2 O'levels: English Language and English Literature. My first boss said they were the most important ones to have in computing anyway because at least then you would be able to read and understand the manuals

[threaded]

The big companies discovered Eastern European accession workers a few years ago. Now this supply is drying up (possibly because the weak pound makes the work less attractive, or maybe they've found better opportunities) they're looking around for new sources of cheap labour.

Oddly enough, in Denmark, the ones I know, all have degrees.

There again, one of the contractors on the farm is often called away to help translate. Yesterdays example was for a couple of scallies arrested for bank robbery. What with the recession, other machinery work has pretty much dried up, so now he's making more doing that than his proper job.